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Journalists and lawyers that had arrived early to attend the proceedings of the election petition tribunal – where Tinubu’s victory is being challenged – watched in shock as a factional chairman of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa; and the director-general of Peter Obi’s campaign, Akin Osuntokun, engaged in a confrontation over who would sit at the litigants’ gallery in the courtroom.